The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it.… — Joan Vass Copy Share Image
I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The problem, once again, as in all sciences is the attitude of the mind that is dealing with whatever field. The problem… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge.… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
I had done drama at university, but I never thought I could be a director. There were so few female directors then.… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image